[EAS] Was NPR Cue Channel Distorted?

[Lowell Kiesow]

The cause was a PEP station that fed the output of their box back to 
the phone bridge which polluted the audio to everyone.  The root 
cause was that FEMA was either too dumb or too lazy to use a 
send-only phone bridge.  Instead, they treated it like a conference 
call, which it isn't.  Even if the wiring mistake at the PEP station 
hadn't happened, who needs the noise from 42 lines getting back into 
the mix.  Brilliant.

At 06:46 AM 11/16/2011, you wrote:
>More questions than answers...
>
>Did FEMA somehow originate at least two EAN's at the same time from 
>different sources?
>Would this account for some "usable audio" vs totally unusable?
>Could it also account for the multiple data burst heard throughout 
>the test audio?
>Did they have endec # 1 sending an alert and endec # 2 listening to # 1?
>And also then endec # 2 sending an alert and endec # 1 listening to 
># 2 and all happening at the same time?
>Or at least was the originating endec listening to itself?
>
>Inquiring minds...
>
>Dave

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